SNEAK PEEKS: What's new in theaters this week

By Al Alexander, Correspondent

Wednesday

Mar 6, 2019 at 5:00 AM

Captain Marvel

For years, the Captain, aka Mar-Vell, has changed sexes more often than Hollywood recasts Spider-Man. But it appears he/she has finally decided to go female in the form of Brie Larson for this '90s-set tale about an air force pilot named Carol Danvers with—you guessed it—mysterious superpowers.

Birds of Passage

The makers of the obscenely underseen “Embrace of the Serpent” return to the Amazon for another story about indigenous people, this time a tribesman defying his elders by getting into the Colombian drug-trafficking business.

Climax

Gaspar Noé (“Enter the Void”) directs an LSD-fueled tale about a dance company turning on each other after dropping acid and getting all their tutus in a twist.

The Wedding Guest

Taking a break from his “Trip” flicks, eclectic director Michael Winterbottom follows a Brit traveling to Pakistan for a wedding he intends to ruin by kidnapping the bride. Chaos ensues.

Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe gets the biopic treatment focusing on his time at New York City's famed Chelsea Hotel and how the artist balanced work with his new fascination with BDSM.